Duane

“We still don’t like the things we don’t like –we just cease to be at war with them. And once the war is over, change can begin.”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life

“Luckily, scientists have uncovered a few secrets to help make the process of creating habits easier. In their bestselling book Nudge, the economist Richard Thaler and the law professor Cass Sunstein show how to influence other people’s behavior through carefully designed choices, or what they called “choice architecture.” You”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

“Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.”
― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life

“This is where low self-esteem gets built into the core of the machine. For Aristotle, a person had innate potential and was naturally moving towards perfection. But for the Christians, a person was born in a state of sin and falling towards hell. God, not the individual, was where perfection lay. This meant that a person wanting to become more perfect would have to engage in a constant war with themselves – a war, not with forces out in the world, but with their own soul, their conscience, their mind and thoughts. And because perfection only existed outside the human realm, that struggle would always be hopeless. The Christians had given the Western self a soul, and then begun to torture it.”
― Will Storr, Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us